Moonworm [any]

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  • Tried Vinlandsaga again. Much easier with subs now, Thors’s English voice actor leaves something to be desired. The show is pretty fun, although sometimes I don’t know if I’m enjoying it on its terms or just amused by having so many anime tropes, conventions, tones in a setting that is typically treated quite differently. There’s something charmingly funny about having vikings talk about honor, saving face, being deferential to superiors, in that very staid and quiet way so typical of anime. It’s not that the concepts are inappropriate to the story or setting, it’s just the way that they’re presented is very distinct and notably different from western conventional portrayal.

    It is good slop though, pretty cool fights and it’s definitely trying to have a good time while maybe leading up to some kind of observation about the nature of violence, power, and masculinity. Sometimes I like the over-the-top stuff and all the goofy warrior archetypes (e.g. guy who is really big [stoic]; guy who is really big [loves violence {malicious}]; guy who is really big [loves violence {not malicious}]), but sometimes the tropes are eh and it’s hard for me to an enjoy a knifey edgeboy consumed by revenge. Every now and then the show gets me a little because I am a huge fucking sap.

    BUT THEN it hits you with the funniest end credit music. I’m sorry, there’s just something that gets me every time about the sudden shift into a Japanese woman doing an honestly pretty decent Norah Jones type affect.